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Marcial Tenreiro-BermudezArchaeoethnologica: Approches to Celtic Linguistics - Book / Abordagens da Linguística Céltica - Livro +INFO in: <a href="https://archaeoethnologica.blogspot.com/2025/07/abordagens-da-linguistica-celtica-livro.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://archaeoethnologica.blogspot.com/2025/07/abordagens-da-linguistica-celtica-livro.html</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Linguistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Linguistics</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/celticstudies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#celticstudies</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/celticlinguistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#celticlinguistics</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/philology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#philology</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/celticlanguages" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#celticlanguages</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/languagechange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#languagechange</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/palaeolinguistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#palaeolinguistics</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#books</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/openaccess" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#openaccess</a>

Dianora (Diane Bruce)Watching a discussion (<a href="https://lgbtqia.space/@alice/114741495804033479" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://lgbtqia.space/@alice/114741495804033479</a>) about the usage of the word "guy" and I have pointed out that language change can be... rapid nowadays. So this got me curious: <a href="https://www.shaav.com/professional/linguistics/guys.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.shaav.com/professional/linguistics/guys.html</a><a href="https://ottawa.place/tags/Linguistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Linguistics</a> <a href="https://ottawa.place/tags/Language" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Language</a> <a href="https://ottawa.place/tags/LanguageChange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LanguageChange</a>

Stan CareyNew eggcorn spotted in the wild: "sure up" instead of "shore up"<a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/eggcorn" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#eggcorn</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/linguistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#linguistics</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/language" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#language</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/EnglishUsage" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#EnglishUsage</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/words" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#words</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/LanguageChange" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#LanguageChange</a>

Dolls Against GravityShopping websites translating item titles and descriptions automatically could be a new vector of language change as I now see "booster" (a small pack of trading card games) translated into Polish as "dopalacz" (that I have only ever seen used with the meaning "designer drug"). I'm curious if people will catch on.<a href="https://retro.pizza/tags/linguistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#linguistics</a> <a href="https://retro.pizza/tags/languagechange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#languagechange</a>

Stan CareyA retro verbing from Torrey Peters: "The car travels slowly, block by block through traffic. Tourists and a few groups of teenagers Frogger their way across the streets."<a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/reading" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#reading</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/TorreyPeters" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#TorreyPeters</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/LanguageChange" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#LanguageChange</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/verbing" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#verbing</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/videogames" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#videogames</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/RetroGaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#RetroGaming</a>

Dianora (Diane Bruce)The realisation that language change is real is really struck home when one looks up what the word "silly" used to mean.<a href="https://ottawa.place/tags/Language" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Language</a> <a href="https://ottawa.place/tags/LanguageChange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LanguageChange</a> <a href="https://ottawa.place/tags/LanguageEvolution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LanguageEvolution</a> <a href="https://ottawa.place/tags/Linguistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Linguistics</a>

Stan CareyA brief history (and critique) of English spelling reform that I once wrote for <a href="https://mastodon.world/@HistoryToday" class="u-url mention">@HistoryToday</a>: <a href="https://www.historytoday.com/brief-history-english-spelling-reform" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no">https://www.historytoday.com/brief-history-english-spelling-reform</a> Supplementary notes on the history of English spelling reform: <a href="https://stancarey.wordpress.com/2016/02/08/the-history-of-english-spelling-reform/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no">https://stancarey.wordpress.com/2016/02/08/the-history-of-english-spelling-reform/</a><a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/linguistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#linguistics</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/spelling" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#spelling</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/language" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#language</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#history</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/EnglishUsage" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#EnglishUsage</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#writing</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/LanguageChange" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#LanguageChange</a>

Stan Carey"Every" was originally a compound of two words in Old English: æfre (ever) + ælc (each), the former added for emphasis. You'll find "euerich" and the like in Chaucer. <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/etymology" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#etymology</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/words" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#words</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/language" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#language</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/LanguageChange" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#LanguageChange</a>

Stan CareyA thing about language that a lot of people don't know is that you can dislike a usage intensely – a pronunciation, a piece of grammar, etc. – without presuming to reject it on behalf of all people, in all places, for all time<a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/language" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#language</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/words" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#words</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/EnglishUsage" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#EnglishUsage</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/grammar" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#grammar</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/prescriptivism" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#prescriptivism</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/LanguageChange" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#LanguageChange</a>

Stan CareyMerriam-Webster has started a slang dictionary, if you've been wondering what on earth "skibidi", "cheugy", or "high-key" means: <a href="https://www.merriam-webster.com/slang" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no">https://www.merriam-webster.com/slang</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/slang" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#slang</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/language" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#language</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/dictionary" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#dictionary</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/words" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#words</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/neologisms" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#neologisms</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/lexicography" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#lexicography</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/LanguageChange" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#LanguageChange</a>

Joshua McNeillTIL that <a href="https://h4.io/tags/Kenner" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Kenner</a>, <a href="https://h4.io/tags/Louisiana" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Louisiana</a> was originally called Cannes Brûlées, meaning burnt sugarcane. The French pronunciation is /kan bɾyle/ whereas Kenner is /kɛn əɹ/. It's hard to say what happened to the adjective as it was anglicized, but the sugarcane was preserved pretty well in there.(Got this from the list of <a href="https://h4.io/tags/colonial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#colonial</a> censuses in Zitomersky (1974) that has one for "Cannes Bruslees" in 1722.)<a href="https://h4.io/tags/linguistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#linguistics</a> <a href="https://h4.io/tags/languagechange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#languagechange</a> <a href="https://h4.io/tags/French" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#French</a> <a href="https://h4.io/tags/English" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#English</a> <a href="https://h4.io/tags/languagecontact" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#languagecontact</a> <a href="https://h4.io/tags/NewOrleans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NewOrleans</a> <a href="https://h4.io/tags/NOLA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NOLA</a>

Joshua McNeillStrange to not have any <a href="https://h4.io/tags/Labov" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Labov</a> quotes to share that I find poignant despite being the giant of <a href="https://h4.io/tags/sociolinguistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#sociolinguistics</a> and despite how much of his work I've read. He always struck me as a workhorse with a lot of interesting method ideas but not someone terribly concerned with <a href="https://h4.io/tags/socialtheory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#socialtheory</a> where one's writing might become more touching. His legacy and influence will undoubtedly persist for a very long time still. <a href="https://h4.io/tags/linguistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#linguistics</a> <a href="https://h4.io/tags/languagevariation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#languagevariation</a> <a href="https://h4.io/tags/languagechange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#languagechange</a>

Serhii NazarovetsFascinating study on linguistic shifts in Southern <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/Ukraine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Ukraine</a> 🇺🇦 after Russia's full-scale invasion in 2022:- Many rejected the 'language of the aggressor.' - Ukrainian usage surged in public spaces. - Bilingualism (Ukrainian-Russian) is now seen negatively. - Family language habits changed less due to tradition.Read more: 👉 <a href="https://doi.org/10.12797/LV.19.2024.38.21" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://doi.org/10.12797/LV.19.2024.38.21</a><a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/LanguageChange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LanguageChange</a> <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/UkrainianIdentity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#UkrainianIdentity</a> <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/Sociolinguistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Sociolinguistics</a>

Dave MuthThis one post explains a lot.<a href="https://mas.to/tags/Linguistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Linguistics</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Language" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Language</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/LanguageChange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LanguageChange</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Xmas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Xmas</a> <a href="https://toot.community/@yvanspijk/113210791335427735" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://toot.community/@yvanspijk/113210791335427735</a>

Dave MuthFun! Your English pronunciation-changes-over-time posts are simply great, thanks!As Hawaiians would say, "Choice, brah!" <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Linguistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Linguistics</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Language" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Language</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/LanguageChange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LanguageChange</a> <a href="https://toot.community/@yvanspijk/113324222305435532" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://toot.community/@yvanspijk/113324222305435532</a>

Stan CareyEtymology hidden in plain sight: "naughty" originally meant poor, as in "naught-y" = having nought.Later it meant morally bad or wicked. This then weakened to the familiar "disobedient" sense in the 17thC.<a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/language" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#language</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/etymology" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#etymology</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/words" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#words</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/LanguageChange" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#LanguageChange</a>

Dianora (Diane Bruce)Milch cow gives it away of course... but from an 1851 Canadian census. I was mildly curious how many people (who didn't speak german) knew the English word as well. It is of course "Milk" as in "Milk cows". I rather doubt it would be used on any census today. 😀 <a href="https://ottawa.place/tags/Language" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Language</a> <a href="https://ottawa.place/tags/Linguistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Linguistics</a> <a href="https://ottawa.place/tags/LanguageChange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LanguageChange</a> <a href="https://ottawa.place/tags/Genealogy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Genealogy</a>

Dianora (Diane Bruce)Out of curiosity, how many of you fine folks would know the word "milch" and what it means. (edit I should have added it's still an English word! but yes if you know german you'd know it as it is the same word. ;) ) (Please no spoilers and no cheating by looking it up until after you have thought about it at least!)<a href="https://ottawa.place/tags/Language" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Language</a> <a href="https://ottawa.place/tags/Linguistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Linguistics</a> <a href="https://ottawa.place/tags/LanguageChange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LanguageChange</a>

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